Armor Men's Health Show

EP 616: Now Hear This--How ENT Physician, Dr. Achal Dhruva, Can Help You Hear, Breathe, and Sleep Better

January 11, 2023 Dr. Sandeep Mistry and Donna Lee
Armor Men's Health Show
EP 616: Now Hear This--How ENT Physician, Dr. Achal Dhruva, Can Help You Hear, Breathe, and Sleep Better
Show Notes Transcript

In this episode, Dr. Mistry and Donna Lee are joined by Dr. Achal Dhruva, an otolaryngologist, also known as ENTs, or ear, nose, and throat specialists. ENTs diagnose and treat diseases of the head and neck. Today, Dr. Dhruva shares some of the most common conditions he sees, from hearing loss to sleep apnea. Fortunately, the medical and surgical treatment options have improved the hearing, sleep, and overall quality of life for ENT patients. To learn more or to make an appointment, visit the Austin Regional Clinic online or call 512-260-1518 today!

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Dr. Mistry is a board-certified urologist and has been treating patients in the Austin and Greater Williamson County area since he started his private practice in 2007.

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Speaker 1:

Welcome to the Armor Men's Health Show with Dr. Mystery and Donna Lee.

Speaker 2:

Hello and welcome to the Armor Men's Health Show. This is Dr. Mystery, your host, board certified urologist all around. Great guy here with my

Speaker 3:

<laugh>,

Speaker 2:

Wonderfully beheaded co-host. Oh,

Speaker 3:

Beheaded.

Speaker 2:

You have a head, right?

Speaker 3:

But I was beheaded. I don't know that. I have a lovely head of

Speaker 2:

Hair. You have a lovely head of hair. Thank you, Donnelly.

Speaker 3:

That's right. Welcome everybody. We just practiced the lo biggest word. I know. Oto Laryngology.

Speaker 2:

Oto Rhino. Laryngology

Speaker 3:

Oto. Rhino laryngology. That's,

Speaker 2:

That's has a mouthful. It is.

Speaker 3:

That's what she said.

Speaker 2:

Uh, this is a men's health show. Is it? Uh,<laugh>. I'm a board certified urologist.

Speaker 3:

I don't know anymore.

Speaker 2:

<laugh>, uh, this show is brought to you by the urology group that I started in 2007. N A u Urology Specialist. Mm-hmm.<affirmative>. Uh, we would love to see you as a patient if you ever want to be in the Austin area and come see us. Although this show is worldwide,

Speaker 3:

You know, we had a guest or a guest, a listener patient call, and he said he was looking for holistic urology. And I said, well, how'd you find us? And I thought maybe he listened to the radio show or Googled or something. He said, his friend who is in Australia, goo for him, Googled us and found holistic urology in Austin

Speaker 2:

And for those four people in South Korea that keep downloading the show. Thank you very much.<laugh>. How do people get ahold of us, uh, and complain about your, uh, lack of

Speaker 3:

Cultural sense? Scream loudly and wish that we hear you. And you can call 5 1 2 2 3 8 0 7 6 2. You can also reach out to us through our website, armor men's health.com and you can submit your questions there as well to armor men's health.com. We also, by the way, have a link to our main website on our armor, uh, website. Just wanted you to know,

Speaker 2:

Thank you so much<laugh>. Appreciate

Speaker 3:

That. We're in Round Rock North Austin, south Austin in Dripping Springs.

Speaker 2:

Today we're honored to have Dr. Acha Druva. My family's personal oto, rhino Laryngologist on the show. Is that a HIPAA violation?<laugh>? I can, I can self-report if I want to. Acha, thank you so much for joining us today. Thank

Speaker 4:

You. Thanks for having me.

Speaker 2:

This is, so you work for Austin Regional Clinic here in Austin and you are an E N T specialist. Why don't you tell, uh, our listeners a little bit about kind of what it takes to become an e n ENT specialist and what you guys do?

Speaker 4:

It's similar to urology. It's one year of general surgery after medical school. So four years of college, four years of medical school, and then five years of residency, one of which is general surgery, and then four of e n t,

Speaker 2:

Which really puts you different than ophthalmologists who call themselves surgeons but don't do a general surgery year. Right.

Speaker 4:

Um, I'm gonna plead the fifth on that.

Speaker 2:

A slow burn. And do you think, do you think that that was for Dr. Smith from last week? Uh, do you think people become odor rhino laryngologists because they can't spell ophthalmologist,<laugh>,

Speaker 4:

The P and the H?

Speaker 2:

It's very confusing, don't you think? So you, you handle ear, nose, throat kind of medicine, correct?

Speaker 4:

That's exactly right. It's medic medicine and surgery. So we do the medical aspect of it and the surgical aspect

Speaker 2:

Of it. And what would you say in adults, um, adult men, especially as they age, the most common kind of conditions that you're seeing and taking care of?

Speaker 4:

Yeah, I think there's a, there's a couple that jump out. Um, one and the popular one is sleep apnea. Uh, as we get older, we all lose muscle tone and, um, in the throat that leads to snoring and we put on some weight invariably, and that snoring turns into sleep apnea.

Speaker 2:

So sleep apnea is actually a really, um, important topic that we deal with in our office. And a lot of patients are surprised that there's a sleep apnea urology kind of, uh, connection. Uh, and, and we talk about that on the show all the time, increase urination. Uh, and then, but, but where we deal with sleep apnea a lot today is how when, when you're sleeping and you're not oxygenating, it's really a stressor on your body and it leads to all sorts of health problems, right?

Speaker 4:

Oh, absolutely. You know, I never, I never thought I'd have so many mutual patients with

Speaker 3:

Urologists<laugh>,

Speaker 4:

But, um, yeah, it, you know, that deep sleep, the sleep apnea is really interruption of that deep sleep. And we know that good things happen in deep sleep, hormone secretion, secretion of metabolic regulators. Um, and, and also just the restorative sleep. And when we're interrupting that deep sleep is when we're seeing problems of fatigue and all the problems that you guys see.

Speaker 2:

So when people have sleep apnea and, and a lot of patients come to me and they're like, resistant to even getting tested for sleep apnea because they're afraid they're gonna have to wake up with like this machine on their face and annoy everybody with a very loud C P A P machine. Uh, and so maybe, you know, I think a lot of people may be familiar with C P A P machines. Talk to us a little bit about what are the types of patients that benefit from a surgical repair or a surgical approach to their sleep apnea?

Speaker 4:

Yeah, so, you know, large sleep apnea is largely, uh, a nonsurgical issue, right? Um, and C P A P is very effective. Um, but when we get into the, the fraction of the small fraction of patients that may have a deviated septum, they may not be breathing well through their nose. They may have huge tonsils. Okay. Um, you know, we used to take out large tonsils in everyone in this fifties, sixties and seventies.

Speaker 2:

And then, and then somebody told me to, to like cut out the little droopy thing in the back of my

Speaker 3:

Throat. The uvula uvula, you cut it out, it, it don't cut it out behooves

Speaker 4:

You to mine your uvula.

Speaker 3:

Oh. Oh, he's a clever poet over here,<laugh>. You know, my husband has an extra large uvula and he brags about it, but I don't think that translates to his penis<laugh> doesn't mean that you have,

Speaker 2:

As we know, so exactly as we all know,

Speaker 4:

If that was only the

Speaker 2:

Case. That's funny. That's mine. Mine almost touches the bottom of my tongue. Oh,

Speaker 3:

No, it's amazing. Get out as like two, two times.

Speaker 2:

But yeah, it's amazing.

Speaker 4:

So, so tonsils, uvula, septum, uh, these are all surgical corrections that, that are fairly straightforward.

Speaker 2:

Do you think that people, that, that there, there are some people out there that overuse surgical interventions for, for, uh, sleep apnea? Because I feel like depending on where you end up to treat your sleep apnea, you're either gonna get a knife<laugh> or, or not. And, uh, sometimes I wonder if maybe it's being overused.

Speaker 4:

Yeah. You know, I think, um, I, I can't speculate on on what goes on elsewhere, but I have sure you can, you know, there's sure you can, but, um, you know, sometimes, uh, there's newer procedures that, that we try and we think that something's going to help. And then over time that enthusiasm kind of weans, you know, and we realize that hey, this, this isn't really working for sleep apnea, uh, as well as we thought it, it would. Um, there

Speaker 2:

Is one surgery that works very well for sleep apnea. Do you know what that is? Mm-hmm.<affirmative>, it's bariatric surgery. Oh. To lose weight because, uh, weight gain, you know, I think for those guys who have lost weight and lost their sleep apnea can attest to the fact that weight is probably one of the major risk factors for sleep apnea.

Speaker 4:

Hmm. Absolutely. In fact, the, the general surgeons who do bariatric surgery, uh, part of the workup pre pre-op is, um, getting tested for sleep apnea and treating the sleep apnea. Um, you know, we, we know that treating sleep apnea helps us lose weight better than if it it wasn't

Speaker 2:

Treated. It's like a chicken and egg phenomenon. Right? Exactly. You're, you're bigger so you get sleep apnea and then you're tired so you don't work out and then you get worse sleep apnea and then it, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's, it's, it's a cycle. That's, and so, um, if people, uh, out there are suspecting sleep apnea or most importantly for the wives listening right now who want to convince their husbands<laugh> to get tested for sleep apnea, tell us what, what is the usual testing program that, that, that, that men will go through to get tested for sleep apnea?

Speaker 4:

Yeah, that's where we've seen improvement. You know, traditionally people would go, go to the doctor, they get a sleep test ordered, they go to the sleep lab overnight, and then they wait a week or two to get the results back. And now we can do home sleep studies

Speaker 2:

And, and they're pretty accurate.

Speaker 4:

Oh, yeah. So yeah, they, they sometimes underestimate the presence of sleep apnea. But if a, if a home sleep study is positive and it shows that you have moderate or severe sleep apnea, you have moderate or severe sleep apnea,

Speaker 2:

And that home test isn't that invasive. You put like a, like a O two sensor on your, on your finger and a chest strap to make sure that it's measuring your, your, your breath incursions. And then you wear it for a couple nights.

Speaker 4:

That's right. It's one or two nights. Yeah. And that's exactly it. It's a, it's a belt or a strap that you put around your chest, uh, pulse ox on your finger and a nasal cannula.

Speaker 2:

So for those of you patients that come to see us as urology patients, don't be surprised when you leave our office with a home sleep test because it makes a really big difference in terms of your, your overall health. Mm-hmm.<affirmative>. And when people come to tell us that they're fatigued and they just want testosterone, that's the main reason we started doing sleep studies because, you know, 80% of them had sleep apnea and they were like, well, this testosterone's not working. And I'm like, yeah, it's because you're choking yourself to death every night with your sleep apnea<laugh>.

Speaker 4:

That, that's how I convince men to actually use the C P A P. I say, you know, this will get you more energy. And that there has been an association with low testosterone in the presence of sleep apnea.

Speaker 2:

We should just tell everybody, your erections are gonna get lost if you don't take this sleep

Speaker 3:

Study. Oh boy. We can

Speaker 2:

<laugh>. We

Speaker 3:

Can. Is that medically sound enough?

Speaker 2:

I think it's, I think there's enough connections that we can say the sleep bone is connected to the penis bone. The

Speaker 3:

Penis bone. Oh,

Speaker 2:

<laugh>. Well, y thank you so much for joining us today. W would you tell me what is your email address and what is the phone number if somebody wants to come get treated by

Speaker 3:

You? Maybe not email address.

Speaker 4:

You're putting me on the spot here. So,

Speaker 2:

Or website

Speaker 4:

Address

Speaker 2:

Website. Website websites enough. So,

Speaker 4:

Uh, it's double What's your Tinder profile? Uh, austin regional clinic.com. And then you can search, you know, the different specialties. Oh, you spell your name, go on e n t. Yeah, it's uh, a c h a L. And last name Druva, D H R U V A. And, uh, the office number. Uh, and we have a few offices in town, but, uh, mine is, uh, Cedar Park. It's 5 1 2 2 6 0 1 5 8 1.

Speaker 2:

Well, thank you so much for joining us. We're gonna be back with another segment. We're gonna talk about hearing loss there and, uh, we'll be right back after this message.

Speaker 3:

Sorry, what was that? You said? I couldn't hear you,<laugh>. We'll

Speaker 2:

Be right back. Hello and welcome back to the Armaments Health Show. This is Dr. Mystery, your host, board certified urologist, joined by my wonderful co-host business manager and one of my best friends. Really, Donnelly.

Speaker 3:

That's right. That's why he always beats up on me. So when I get those emails that you're mean to me, I'm just say, oh, he loves me that sort of way.

Speaker 2:

Actually, your husband used to be one of my best friends, uh, but now he's so famous because it was poured on Twitter that he built a Coach Sarkisian house.

Speaker 3:

That's right. He built so Coach Sarkisian house and now he's best friends with the Sarkisian and they're super sweet.

Speaker 2:

Well, they are super sweet.

Speaker 3:

Now let's win some

Speaker 2:

Games and now he won't return my phone calls.<laugh>, this show is brought to you by the urology group that I started in 2007 N A u Urology Specialists. We now have grown to four urology physicians. Hmm. We have four advanced practice providers, uh, like nurse practitioners and PAs. We have two physical therapists. We have a sex therapist, we have a health coach on staff. We do sleep testing. We are here for you for your holistic urology needs.

Speaker 3:

That's right. You know, holistic is, um, very important to a lot of people out there.

Speaker 2:

Yes. You're just dying to tell the story again. No, I'm not gonna let you tell, I'm gonna tell the story again

Speaker 3:

Ever again that somebody in Australia felt this. No. Stop it. And they googled holistic urology. You

Speaker 2:

Cut too much.

Speaker 3:

It was so cool. Well,

Speaker 2:

We're joined, we're joined again by Dr. Acha Druva, otolaryngologist E N T physician, for those of you that only like letters and can't spell big words. Thank you for joining us again, aal.

Speaker 4:

Thank you. Thanks for having me.

Speaker 2:

I recently went to an E N T physician myself for what was perceived as hearing loss.

Speaker 4:

Not me. No,

Speaker 2:

I didn't, I didn't. Wow. Your your schedule's too busy.<laugh>. And so, but Donna here set me up a hearing test. Now, do you think hearing loss is just a genetic and evolutionary thing that helps husbands avoid wives nagging mm-hmm.<affirmative>? Yes.

Speaker 4:

Yes it is. So I have a patient that said, you know, men lose their hearing earlier than women. Mm. And they lose it, or,

Speaker 3:

Or so they say

Speaker 4:

<laugh> and the common hearing losses in the exact frequency of the wife that, that women, it's in the higher frequencies and the higher pitches.

Speaker 3:

That's what my husband says.

Speaker 2:

I'm telling you.

Speaker 4:

So he says, do you know why that is? I said, you know, uh, we really don't know. He said, because there is a God

Speaker 3:

<laugh>. Oh my gosh. Oh, wow.

Speaker 2:

All right. Well, very good. Sorry, everybody

Speaker 4:

Out there. So that trouble. So that's a short answer to your

Speaker 2:

Question. You know, when you're very young and you're a baby, high frequency hearing starts first. That's why you talk to babies like this because they can hear that really well. And then as you get older, you lose that.

Speaker 3:

That made me feel uncomfortable.

Speaker 2:

I won't do voices anymore. Okay. I'll go back to my,

Speaker 4:

You're a little too good

Speaker 2:

At that.<laugh>. I'll get, I'll get back to my, he's

Speaker 4:

Got a grandmother, but then again, he's a grandfather. Yeah.

Speaker 2:

I'll get back to my Okta. Maybe explain to us what is the natural process of hearing loss and when should people actively try to seek out help for hearing loss?

Speaker 4:

You know, this is a multifactorial problem. It could be noise exposure, it could be genetics, uh, or hereditary. But the natural progression usually is, you know, if you find yourself, especially when you're in noisy environments, like you fear at a loud restaurant or a bar or some, and the person right in front of you, you have a tough time hearing or understanding the person right in front of you. That's when it's, it's kind of a red flag that, hey, I may be losing that high frequency hearing. Which otherwise, if you're in your own house or you're working on a computer all day, you may not notice it. It's so subtle.

Speaker 2:

That's right.

Speaker 4:

Uh, but then when you're in a social situation and you have a tough time understanding the person in front of you in a noisy environment, that's usually a, a tip

Speaker 2:

Off. Now, in terms of age, what do you think is like, you kind of expect a 75 year old man to maybe have some hearing loss, but what age, if you hear somebody having hearing loss, do you say, man, that's really, really young.

Speaker 4:

Uh, I would say, you know, twenties, thirties, if you have a hearing loss, that's a, a red flag. The, you know, the other is sudden hearing loss. If you wake up one day and, and you have fullness or pressure in your ear, that's a problem. Uh, that shouldn't just be chalked up to, Hey, I have wax in my ears. And it's something where there's a window of opportunity of about two weeks where we can potentially reverse it. So the one message I would have is if you have sudden hearing loss and your ears look clear when you see the doctor get into to an audiologist or an e n T doc

Speaker 2:

Right away, you shouldn't wait, you should not, not assume it's just congestion or something like that. Correct,

Speaker 4:

Correct.

Speaker 2:

In terms of testing, uh, is, is hearing routinely tested as men age?

Speaker 4:

It should be, you know, especially again, if it's a social situation, uh, or even if their spouses or partners are complaining, Hey, I have to repeat myself. Uh, then yeah, I think every year it should be routine. Once a diagnosis of even a, a little bit of a hearing loss

Speaker 2:

Is seen, can primary care doctors check hearing, or is that mainly by an audiologist? O Auto Rhino Laryngologist.

Speaker 4:

<laugh>, that's right. So the primary care docs, they can screen the hearing, but a true normal hearing test isn't, is an audiologist in a soundproof booth where you can differentiate if it's a nerve hearing loss or if it's a hearing loss related to wax or fluid and

Speaker 2:

Whatnot. In the past, I can imagine using a hearing aid has been something that a lot of men are like not really ready for. Just like, they don't wanna use a C P A P, they don't want do the things that it takes to be healthy. You know, uh, I have family members that have hearing loss and refuse to wear hearing aids because they're afraid of how it's gonna make them look. But

Speaker 3:

They're so small now. They're very small. They're like teeny tiny, and they're like$10,000 or something Crazy

Speaker 4:

<laugh>. Yeah. They go behind the ear. You could, you could, you can't see it if you're looking someone straight, straight at them, you can't really see

Speaker 2:

It. So hearing aids have gotten smaller, sometimes they can be even integrated into your phone. Correct.

Speaker 4:

So you can like, and it's like having a mini computer in your ear. I

Speaker 2:

Mean, I think a lot of people would be happy to insert a computer into their head. I don't know about that.

Speaker 4:

No, no.

Speaker 3:

There's something else they put in ears that I saw in the dirty movie once.

Speaker 2:

<laugh>, you saw in the dirty movie

Speaker 3:

Scarred,

Speaker 4:

Could they fit, fit?

Speaker 3:

That just barely depends on the girl.

Speaker 2:

So, so hearing aids are fascinating to me because they're often not, I mean, in the past they weren't covered by insurance and like you couldn't buy them. Like there were all these barriers to getting hearing aids. Mm-hmm.

Speaker 3:

<affirmative>. Yeah,

Speaker 4:

They, they're still is. You know, they're, they're not cheap. Why is

Speaker 3:

That? Why, why are they so expensive in insurance is so hard?

Speaker 4:

I don't know the answer to

Speaker 3:

That question. They don't want you to hear,

Speaker 4:

Um, I

Speaker 3:

Guess they don't want you to hear the government insurance

Speaker 4:

Doesn't consider hearing loss a medical problem. But, but if you get surgery for a correctable, you know, hearing loss that's covered by insurance.

Speaker 2:

I mean, it says something that the government is run by men and viagras covered, but

Speaker 3:

Not hearing aids. That's true. And penile

Speaker 2:

Prosthesis because there is a God, is that right?<laugh>? Is that, is that the, is that, is that the punchline? I joke too,<laugh>, when it comes to hearing lost protection, I'm sure that people don't want to be nagged about having to wear earplugs and stuff at loud events. But I see it more and more. I, I I, I see that people are being a lot more proactive about protecting their hearing. I imagine if you listen to a lot of live music, you should probably keep some earplugs in your, in your car so that that doesn't happen if you shoot guns, probably make sure you have hearing protection. Are there secret ways that, that, that noise pollution gets into ourselves that, that people may not recognize?

Speaker 4:

Usually it's not subtle. You know, sometimes if we see this with drivers, you know, truck drivers where they keep the window down in their left side, they're, they, they develop a frequency hearing loss on, on

Speaker 2:

The left side because, because the, the wind going through and like all

Speaker 4:

The cars. Yeah. It's just the noise exposure on the left side that's compared to the right side.

Speaker 2:

Well, that's interesting. I never thought

Speaker 4:

About, unless they have someone yapping, yapping away after

Speaker 3:

That's point to me,

Speaker 2:

He was pointing

Speaker 4:

Just to my right. You know, if I was the driver here,<laugh>. And

Speaker 2:

If people are going to take more unnatural or holistic or supplement things, give us some kind of insight into, uh, supplements and vitamins and things like that, that that kind of Im impact hearing,

Speaker 4:

You know, I don't know of, I know, you know, certain medications, aspirin, ibuprofen can, and certain chemotherapy agents do trigger a, a nerve hearing loss

Speaker 2:

And gentamicin, right? Oh

Speaker 4:

Yeah. Yeah. So the

Speaker 2:

Antibiotics antibiotics can too,

Speaker 4:

For sure. But as far as holistics and, and natural supplements, I don't know of them enough to say one does or doesn't, haven't seen that.

Speaker 2:

But general nerve kind of things are probably gonna be important here. So alcohol use, smoking, things like that, that kind of affect just general nerve, nerve conduction. Now diabetes affects a lot of nerve conduction. Does diabetes contribute to hearing loss in any way that you see a lot of?

Speaker 4:

Yeah. You know, there, there's some reports that's shown association. It's somehow doesn't behave like a peripheral nerve as much as, you know, the extremities. Like, you know, with diabetics, uhhuh<affirmative> or even erectile

Speaker 2:

Dys dysfunction with sensory and stuff

Speaker 4:

Like that. You know, that's still,

Speaker 2:

And in terms of surgical interventions for hearing loss, like actually going in there and fixing things, what are some of the most common reasons people may, may have to have surgery to correct

Speaker 4:

Hearing? Yeah, so the, and this is where the audiogram comes in, is it can tell us if a hearing loss is correctable or not. Something as simple as a perforated eardrum. Okay. It can surgically repair that. There's stiffening of, you know, you remember in grade school you learn to hammer the anvil and the stir up the bones in the middle ear.

Speaker 2:

If you haven't seen the pictures of the bones in the ear. It is, it is, it is a marvel of evolution that these tiny, tiny, tiny bones work together to keep that eardrum suspended to take sound waves and make them into nerve conduction. It is. Oh, it's amazing. It's amazing. Wow.

Speaker 4:

And it, it's actually the only, you know, you go sound waves, which is through air, right? Then it goes through the bones, which is through a solid medium. Right. The bones then vibrate and create a little fluid wave in the cochlea. So that's a fluid medium. And then that sends a signal to the nerve, which is an electrical medium.

Speaker 2:

And there's little hairs in there that like, go

Speaker 4:

Back. So hair cells fascinating

Speaker 2:

How

Speaker 4:

We hear. So surgical correction, we can, uh, there's certain conditions where the, the bones are stiff and you can go in and put in prosthesis so that

Speaker 2:

You have fake ear bones that you can put in there.

Speaker 4:

We have prosthetics, oh my god. Prosthetics for the, for the, the bones in the middle ear. That's

Speaker 2:

Fascinating. So

Speaker 4:

Excited over there. And then, uh, yeah,<laugh>,

Speaker 2:

It's like arthritis of the ear and you gotta go in there and that's right, like

Speaker 4:

Stiffening,

Speaker 2:

Like a bone replacement,

Speaker 4:

<laugh>. Uh, so, and then obviously cochlear, you hear about cochlear implants, which are, uh, corrections for nerve hearing loss. Um,

Speaker 2:

Is that, is, I mean, is, is cochlear implants and hearing loss from that way, is that common in older people? Or is there, are you gonna see, or is that gonna be more common in younger people?

Speaker 4:

It's more congenital. You know, the, the cochlear implants for congenital hearing loss, uh, but it is a, you know, it is surgical correction of, of a hearing loss.

Speaker 2:

So you shouldn't necessarily accept that your hearing loss is permanent and you should get checked because maybe we can fix it.

Speaker 4:

Correct. Correct.

Speaker 2:

Well, cha, thank you so much. Dr. Aal Druva with Austin Regional Clinic. He's an E N T doctor or Oto, rhino Laryngologist. How do people get ahold of you? What's the number?

Speaker 4:

Uh, 5 1 2 2 6 0 1 5 8 1. And that's the Cedar Park

Speaker 2:

Office. Well, that's awesome. And Donna, how do people get ahold of us? You

Speaker 3:

Can call us at(512) 238-0762 or visit our website, armor men's health.com. You can can send your questions there and we can answer them anonymously and listen to our podcast.

Speaker 1:

Dr. Druva, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. The Armor Men's Health Show is brought to you by N A U Urology Specialist. For questions or to schedule an appointment, please call 5 1 2 2 3 8 0 7 6 2 or online at armor men's health.com.